Joined 2 years ago
Earned 2900 RDMs
Rank #46

In reaction to the newest assignment of Social Matters. Although there is totally nothing wrong with the assignment as is I'd like to discuss the reach of the assignment. My opinion is that when an assignment has several subtopics (like layouting letters/mails/site/...) you will loose a lot of designers to work on it. Marketing and advertising typically is a sector with a lot of deadlines and late hours (at least in all firms I worked for). So if you get home at 8 or 9 o'clock you won't feel the urge to do another big project (some people also have a family-life). So if a project becomes to large the professionals often don't participate. And those you want for these projects. Result is that a lot of students, jobless people, ... will participate. This is not a bad thing, but it has to be balanced out, so you have expert opinions and designs as well. The level op expertise must be high enough to end up with a interesting end-result. A solution to this problem might be as I suggested in the Social Matters Challenge. Limiting the design to a logo and higher bonus-RDMs (or extra RDMs) for the winner (or the one that works out all subtopics). Just my 2cents... edit: keep in to account "why waste time if in the end I end up empty-handed", so make it worth wasting time...